In the busy post-wash workshop, people often see a familiar scene where many ironing lines run together, and the steam fills the plants. Employees busily sort, stack, and count at the end of the line. Supervisors walk through the linen, verify the paperwork, and coordinate the tasks. The site is busy and chaotic. Behind this, there is a common pain point shared by every laundry plant. The more ironing lines they have, the more workers they need, and the harder the management is.
Why does the seemingly expanded road become increasingly narrower? At the Texcare Asia and China Laundry Expo in November 2025, the CLM intelligent integrated ironing line system made a stunning debut and gave a stunning answer to this common difficulty of the laundry industry.
The Dilemma of the Post-Wash Finishing
The traditional method of expansion is simple and direct. To increase the production capacity, adding an ironing line is okay. However, this path is a fatal logic flaw.
● Bottleneck of the manual sorting
Every increase in the ironing line needs corresponding workers to do manual sorting, stacking, and counting. Treating the linen from different hotels and linen of different sizes is a great test for workers’ proficiency and attention.
● Increased complexity of management
Four ironing lines need four groups of people. But supervising four separate groups, balancing their work pace, avoiding mistakes, and handling documents is far more difficult than 1+1+1+1=4. The phenomenon of information silos is severe. Because the data of every line is separate, accounting for all the data costs time and labor, and people easily make mistakes in this.
● High costs and high risk
The labor costs continuously rise, and it’s hard for laundry plants to hire an experienced worker. More importantly, totally relying on manual sorting has a high mistake rate. The customer complaints and financial settlement disputes are like the Sword of Damocles hanging over the heads of managers. The circulation process of linen is not transparent, so it’s hard to trace the source once there is a mistake.
As a result, laundry plants fall into a vicious circle. They invest a large amount of money to increase benefits, but they found out that a large proportion of profits is compromised by the costs of labor and supervision. Where is the way out? We think that the answer lies in integration and data.
CLM Intelligent Integrated Ironing Line
Based on our deep understanding of the laundry industry, we, CLM, launched an intelligent integrated ironing line system. It is not just the concept of the blueprint. It is a mature solution that has been showcased at the Texcare Asia & China Laundry Expo in 2025 and received high recognition from many on-site customers. It is a complete and intelligent solution from front-end sorting to back-end packaging. It aims to integrate all processing links, use data to drive the flow of linen, and finally achieve less personnel or even unmanned operation in the post-wash finishing workshop.
● Intelligent beginning
After being tumbled and de-lumped in the dryer, the linen is taken over by the CLM linen separator. It accurately identifies and automatically sorts mixed linen into the entrances of many corresponding ironing lines. This lays the foundation for dedicated-line processing and efficient ironing.
● Highly efficient middle section
The sorted linen enters many intelligent ironing lines for highly efficient processing. CLM spreading feeder, CLM ironer, and CLM folder are all renowned for high stability and high flatness. They ensure that each piece of linen can be output in the best condition. All lines run together without disturbing others. They are immersed in production and do not interfere with each other.
● Revolutionary terminal
This is the soul of the whole system and also the most eye-catching focus at the Texcare Asia 2025. All pieces of ironed and folded linen can be sent to the automatic sorting and packaging system by a unified conveyor line. At that time, the revolutionary changes happened.
- Automatic identification and channel separation
The system can intelligently identify the linen’s hotels and specifications.
- Accurate counting and stacking
Systems automatically count and stack the linen according to the preset rules.
- One-click packaging and information binding
Stacked linens are automatically sent to the packaging workstation. The most important thing is that no matter the number of ironing lines that operate at the same time at the front-end, only one operator is needed to finish the package of linen. The system will automatically make a unique identification code to associate all key information. The stable operation process at the Texcare Asia 2025 site directly shows the maturity and reliability.
Conclusion
The heated feedback at the Texcare Asia 2025 & China Laundry Expo shows that the CLM intelligent integrated ironing line is not a vision of the future. It is a practical solution that has already been verified by the market. It accurately responds to the core pain points that laundry plants face in scale expansion and completely liberates managers from the hug-crowd strategy and complex management.
What this system represents is more than the improvement of a standalone machine’s efficiency. Actually, it’s a fundamental production process revolution. It uses integration to break down the isolation and uses data to dispel the fog of management. Finally, it successfully transformed from relying on manual experience to relying on systematic intelligence. This is not only a great improvement in efficiency, but it is also the evolution of the management mode. It brings unprecedented cost controllability, operational transparency, and strategic foresight to enterprises.
We are not just a laundry equipment provider. Choosing CLM means you choose a partner who is dedicated to driving industry progress with innovative technologies. We deeply know your pain points and have prepared mature solutions to help you transform the post-wash finishing workshop from the center of costs and difficult points of the management to a core competitiveness that drives the high-quality development of the enterprises.
Post time: Jan-09-2026